Episode 1
In Praise of Pip
1963-09-27 • 26 min
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
TV season
1963-09-27
The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm on CBS from September 27, 1963 to June 19, 1964. It featured the same intro as the fourth season, but reverted to the original half-hour format.
Episode 1
1963-09-27 • 26 min
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
Episode 2
1963-10-04 • 26 min
A small-time promoter desperately in need of money takes the place of his broken-down robot in a prize fight where humans are barred from participating.
Episode 3
1963-10-11 • 26 min
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Episode 4
1963-10-18 • 26 min
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Episode 5
1963-10-25 • 26 min
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
Episode 6
1963-11-01 • 26 min
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
Episode 7
1963-11-08 • 26 min
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Episode 8
1963-11-15 • 26 min
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
Episode 9
1963-11-29 • 26 min
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Episode 10
1963-12-06 • 26 min
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Episode 11
1963-12-13 • 26 min
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
Episode 12
1963-12-20 • 26 min
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Episode 13
1963-12-27 • 26 min
A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.
Episode 14
1964-01-03 • 26 min
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
Episode 15
1964-01-10 • 26 min
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Episode 16
1964-01-17 • 26 min
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Episode 17
1964-01-24 • 26 min
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
Episode 18
1964-01-31 • 26 min
Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.
Episode 19
1964-02-07 • 26 min
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
Episode 20
1964-02-14 • 26 min
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Episode 21
1964-02-21 • 26 min
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
Episode 22
1964-02-28 • 26 min
As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...
Episode 23
1964-03-06 • 26 min
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Episode 24
1964-03-13 • 26 min
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Episode 25
1964-03-20 • 26 min
A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.
Episode 26
1964-03-27 • 26 min
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
Episode 27
1964-04-03 • 26 min
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Episode 28
1964-04-10 • 26 min
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Episode 29
1964-04-17 • 26 min
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
Episode 30
1964-04-24 • 26 min
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
Episode 31
1964-05-01 • 26 min
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Episode 32
1964-05-08 • 26 min
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Episode 33
1964-05-15 • 26 min
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Episode 34
1964-05-22 • 26 min
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
Episode 35
1964-05-29 • 26 min
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Episode 36
1964-06-19 • 26 min
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.